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All is not gold that glisters.
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 306 (1640 ed.)
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Usually modernized as "All that glitters is not gold."
Also recorded in James Howell,
Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, "English Proverbs" (1659) [compiler], in
three different places.
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Shakespeare,
Tolkien.
Added on 12-Jul-24 | Last updated 8-Jul-26
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More quotes by Herbert, George MOROCCO: All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English dramatist and poet
Merchant of Venice, Act 2, sc. 7, l. 73ff [Morocco] (1597)
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Usually modernized as "All that glitters is not gold."
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Herbert.
Added on 1-Aug-14 | Last updated 12-Jul-24
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Topics: appearances, facade, glisten, gold, outward, seeming, seems, shining
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